Jump to content

The Accelerate Cover is here!

Started by NewToREM, Jan 20 2008 03:47 PM

  • You cannot reply to this topic
92 replies to this topic

#81 Driver Nate

Driver Nate

    Miles Standish Proud

  • Members
  • 17,763 posts
  • LocationRaleigh, North Carolina

Posted 21 January 2008 - 03:54 PM

haggis said:

Just a cover...no feeling one way or the other really.  Still can't get my head around how people can say that the cover reflects the music within....Is that what the cover of an album is supposed to do? :confused:

Maybe not always or even intentionally but to me the cover of Murmur definitely reflects what's within.
"We were listening to the UNC radio (station) there and they were playing an R.E.M. song. I like R.E.M. fine, but at the end of it, the DJ says, 'Ya that was R.E.M., the sound of the new South'. I looked at my roommate and we said, Gawd, if that's the sound of the new South, I preferred it when it was on the skids. That's how we got the name."
- Rick Miller of Southern Culture on the Skids

#82 e-botti

e-botti

    ?

  • Members
  • 2,802 posts

Posted 21 January 2008 - 05:19 PM

Driver Nate said:

Maybe not always or even intentionally but to me the cover of Murmur definitely reflects what's within.

I'm with you.  And also for the NAIHF cover.

11 July 1999 Bologna, Italy / 22 July 2003 Padova, Italy / 1 January 2005 Milan, Italy / 19 February 2005 London, UK / 10 June 2005 Rome, Italy / 10 July 2005 Cardiff, Wales / 16 July 2005 London, UK / June/July 2007 4 nights Olympia Theatre, Dublin, Ireland / 18 March 2008 Milan, Italy / 23 March 2008 London, UK / 8 July 2008 Lyon, France / 20 July 2008 Perugia, Italy / 21 July 2008 Verona, Italy / 24 July 2008 Udine, Italy / 26 July 2008 Milan, Italy / 21 September 2008 Geneve, Switzerland / 26 September 2008 Bologna, Italy / 27 September 2008 Turin, Italy

#83 luisrod

luisrod

    Registered User

  • Members
  • PipPip
  • 10 posts

Posted 21 January 2008 - 05:29 PM

It is nice but it looks very similar to mahogany's connectivity. btw, does anybody know who is REM booking agent?

#84 wagtail

wagtail

    beyond security

  • Members
  • 8,888 posts
  • Locationbeneath the southern cross

Posted 21 January 2008 - 07:56 PM

mandolinbryn said:

This is all great talk, and I hate to dwell, but that shadowy figure is really bothering me!  What is it?

shadowy figure = snuffleupagus + ganesh + vader.

:p

Posted Image        Posted Image        Posted Image

#85 CrutchFloor

CrutchFloor

    Superserious Superfan

  • Members
  • 406 posts

Posted 21 January 2008 - 08:34 PM

wagtail said:

shadowy figure = snuffleupagus + ganesh + vader.

:p

Posted Image        Posted Image        Posted Image

It's odd... It wasn't until this moment that I realized how creepy snuffleupagus really is...
Talk about something to haunt your nightmares!

#86 wagtail

wagtail

    beyond security

  • Members
  • 8,888 posts
  • Locationbeneath the southern cross

Posted 21 January 2008 - 09:50 PM

CrutchFloor said:

It's odd... It wasn't until this moment that I realized how creepy snuffleupagus really is...
Talk about something to haunt your nightmares!

Well when I was a kid...it was okay, 'cause he wasn't real...only that looney big bird could see him..and then one day I turn on the TV and they were all talking about and to snuffy...geez, wtf? it's enough to mess you up for life, seeing an entire community so quickly succumb to that garish birds manic delusions.  

:p

#87 Driver Nate

Driver Nate

    Miles Standish Proud

  • Members
  • 17,763 posts
  • LocationRaleigh, North Carolina

Posted 21 January 2008 - 10:06 PM

luisrod said:

It is nice but it looks very similar to mahogany's connectivity.

Can't say I've ever heard of Mahogany (though the albums do share a certain style) but I don't get the impression that R.E.M. ripped them off at all. The Mahogany cover reminds me of something more Monty Python-esque.

Posted Image
"We were listening to the UNC radio (station) there and they were playing an R.E.M. song. I like R.E.M. fine, but at the end of it, the DJ says, 'Ya that was R.E.M., the sound of the new South'. I looked at my roommate and we said, Gawd, if that's the sound of the new South, I preferred it when it was on the skids. That's how we got the name."
- Rick Miller of Southern Culture on the Skids

#88 purple scapolite

purple scapolite

    Grandmaster Feak

  • Members
  • 3,045 posts

Posted 22 January 2008 - 05:17 AM

mandolinbryn said:

This is all great talk, and I hate to dwell, but that shadowy figure is really bothering me!  What is it?

Not sure... I noticed that too, though, and also the building on the left that appears to have a pair of eyes looking out of it.
clumsy instead

I never understood the frequency

#89 isilida 32

isilida 32

    what i am is what i am

  • Members
  • 6,848 posts

Posted 22 January 2008 - 07:33 AM

CrutchFloor said:

It's odd... It wasn't until this moment that I realized how creepy snuffleupagus really is...
Talk about something to haunt your nightmares!


well snuffleupagus is well endowed so at least he has that going for him. as for the cover i quite like it. don't know why, but i am reminded of old r.e.m. and by that mean the r.e.m. i grew up on in the 80's. it definitely feels more like them than the last record cover.

#90 The Wrong Child

The Wrong Child

    ... or maybe I'm right!

  • Members
  • 739 posts
  • LocationSeattle, WA

Posted 22 January 2008 - 07:43 AM

actually, the first album artwork I thought of was Jimmy Cliff's "The Harder They Come" (http://upload.wikime...derTheyCome.jpg) with the crazy building angle and the blocked letters.  of course, both album covers are totally different, but I'm talking about the "feel" of the artwork.
THE WRONG CHILD
David Wu, Seattle
http://DavidWuMusic.com


Posted Image Check out my keyboard rendition of "Mine Smell Like Honey"!

#91 Sweden

Sweden

    your truth = our lies

  • Members
  • 3,863 posts

Posted 22 January 2008 - 07:47 AM

Well, its seems pretty clear that the Accelerate cover already has caused more speculation and discussion that the ATS cover ever did (apart from everyone bashing it), and that some ten weeks before the Accelerate release...

I say the figure to the left is a character in an old gas mask. Either a type of chemical warfare protection mask, or a pilot's oxygene mask. Like this one:

Posted Image
******************************
"Conventional wisdom would dictate that when the singer is trying to hit the high note and not quite getting there, the last thing you should do is tickle him! No tickling the lead singer when he is reaching for a note that he can no longer hit, OK?" JMS, post-audience visit during The One I Love in Bergen, 2008
******************************

#92 saferdrunk

saferdrunk

    Rookie User

  • Members
  • Pip
  • 6 posts

Posted 22 January 2008 - 09:25 AM

Nice cover. Strong, black-and-white, distinct...

But i have a matter....i found this on wikipedia, but i don't want to post new topic. Maybe it's definitely some nonsense..

Look, it is in article about new album.
First single titles "Supernatural Superserious" will be released in mid february.[8]

#93 Pflanze

Pflanze

    Radio Free Europe

  • Members
  • 889 posts

Posted 22 January 2008 - 10:54 AM

I think it's one of their best covers ever though without the dots!:cool:
After Around the sun and Reveal it's the return to form in cd artwork!

"R.E.M. are for more than 2 decades the biggest small band in the world."
Die Presse

Back to Story Submissions


0 user(s) are reading this topic

members, guests, anonymous users

  1. Murmurs.com
  2. → REM
  3. → R.E.M. News
  4. → Story Submissions